Former ANZ executive George Haramis’ financial services business, Unison Financial Group, has doubled the number of its partnership firms.
The Unison Financial Group managing director said 40 firms have signed working agreements with the business following an expansion drive earlier this year.
Around two-thirds of the firms are located in Victoria and the remainder are in NSW.
“We have had a really good response from both accounting and legal firms to our value proposition,” Haramis told InvestorDaily.
Unison Financial Group has a fairly aggressive strategy for the remainder of 2012 in order to expand its numbers considerably and develop a wider distribution base for the business, Haramis said.
“We have another 15 firms that we are in serious discussions with about coming on board,” Haramis said.
“We’re also fairly close to making one or two appointments in NSW, so that we have a permanent office with local people. We’re excited about this and also very keen to ensure we have the right people on board to support the firms up there,” he said.
He explained that Unison hasn’t been as proactive in including firms in NSW because there are few people on the ground.
“We have deliberately slowed down our recruitment of partner firms in NSW because of that.”
Unison Financial Group was established as a result of the merger between Continuum Financial Group and Eden Wealth Management.
Prior to running Unison, Haramis held senior executive positions with ANZ and RetireInvest.
